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Pentagon Will Help Homeland Security Department Fight Domestic Cyberattacks
The Obama administration has adopted new rules whereby the president would sanction the use of the military's cyberwarfare capabilities, guided by the Department...
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New Search Method Tracks Down Influential Ideas
Princeton University computer scientists have developed a method that uses algorithms to trace the origins and spread of ideas, which they say could make it easier...
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White House Unveils STEM Campaign
The Obama administration will use the White House Science Fair and the USA Science and Engineering Festival to promote education in science, technology, engineering...
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National Smarter-Car Research Network Established at Mcmaster
Canada has announced NECSIS, the Network on Engineering Complex Software Intensive Systems for Automotive Systems, a national research network that will use innovative...
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Supercomputer Digests Twitter in Real-Time
Specialized hardware and software could provide new insights into the social Web.
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Web Ads Tied To News Photos Pop Up More And More
Just because you can do something doesn't mean, of course, that you should. With today's technology, for instance, it's possible to give people who read the National...
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India Plans to Cut Internet Services in Case of Cyber Attacks
Indian law enforcement and national security officials are drawing up plans that will give them technology capabilities to cut off all Internet services during...
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Beagle Supercomputer Has Landed in Chicago
The University of Chicago Computation Institute at Argonne National Laboratory has introduced Beagle, a 150 teraflops, 18,000-core Cray XE6 supercomputer that will...
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Towards Better Explosives Detectors
Over the past decade, a team of NIST scientists have been working to stop the threat of terrorist-based attacks in the form of explosives or explosive-based devices...
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AP to Form News Group to Make Money from Mobile
The Associated Press is overseeing the creation of an organization to help newspapers and broadcasters make more money as more people get their news from mobile...
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It Jobs Rank High on List of Best Jobs in America
Software architect ranked as the top job on Money magazine and Payscale.com's list of the 100 best jobs in America. Overall, IT jobs accounted for 26 of the 100...
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Researcher Reveals Gps Vulnerabilities
University of Texas professor Todd Humphreys says the smart electric grid is susceptible to spoofing attacks that target global positioning system (GPS) timing...
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Ipv4 Addresses Will Run Out Within Months, Nro Warns
The NRO, which is responsible for allocating IPv4 Internet addresses, predicts that it will hand out the final 12 regional blocks of addresses in early 2011. "Allocation...
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The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions
Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent.
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Chinese Chip Closes In on Intel, Amd
China may finally have a processor to power a homegrown supercomputer.
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FCC Wants Broadcasters' Unused Spectrum to Help Meet Growing Wireless Demand
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said he plans to encourage broadcasters to give up unused spectrum for auction to wireless carriers...
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Pentagon Seeks Tight Ties With Cyber Contractors
The U.S. Department of Defense aims to tighten ties with its cyber security contractors in an effort to better protect sensitive computer networks against growing...
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Europeans Play Catch p on Math and Science
Europe is suffering more than other parts of the world from the decline in the number of students pursuing math and science careers. At the same time, Europe is...
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Britain's Biggest Security Threat
Cyberwarfare, not conventional armed conflict, is the country’s No. 1 national-security concern, says a new report from the U.K.'s National Security Council.
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